Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Bump in the Night Edition

Salem, Oregon isn’t exactly East St. Louis, Illinois. People don’t double check that their car doors are locked and floor it until they cross the city limits if they take the wrong exit and end up there unintentionally. But that doesn’t mean leaving your doors open at night is really a good way to go in the capitol city. So when his dog barked, “I figured a skunk or squirrel got into the house because I have a door that I keep cracked for (the dog) to go in and out of,” admitted Dan Strasser. We know you’ll be surprised to find out it wasn’t a squirrel that upset his dog . . .

Just after 6 a.m., Dan Strasser awoke to find an intruder in his home trying to make off with a laptop, so he yelled at his girlfriend to bring him his gun.

Strasser cornered Lowell in his garage, where the bungling burglar pulled a knife…and promptly dropped it when Strasser showed him his gun.

“This sounds weird. I was thankful to have a gun because what that did is make sure nobody got hurt. I don’t know what he would do. I’m a fairly old guy so he could have thought I can get through you, but he decided not to do that when I had a weapon,” he said.

I once drove clear from Atlanta to East St. Louis, by way of Paducah, nonstop except for gas without a single restroom break. Upon reaching a gas station off I-64 just outside ESL, I stepped out, locked the car, took one look at the, ah….wildlife going in and out. Got back into my dad’s new car, and kept going west until I found the Steak n’ Shake in Chesterfield. That was much better.

Anti-gun people are not stupid. They understand what they want and they want to make sure YOU don’t have a firearm. Maybe the are societal elitists looking down their nose at the common man, maybe they are wimps who follow along with what their favorite media stars tell them to think or maybe they have an authoritarian streak and a pathological desire to control others…whatever it is, it is not stupidity that motivates them.

I used to leave a back door open for the dogs and cats, until the neighborhood opossums started to come in to eat the cat food.

I tried to drive them out with an old Webley air pistol I had at the time. Pellets bounced off, they kept chowing down. Thick skinned critters, they are. I finally shoved them out the door with a push broom, whereupon they decided to have a “romantic interlude” on the back porch.

Watched the news broadcast of this. Mr. Strasser said he held the guy in his garage for “5 minutes”!
5 minutes. With them knowing a suspect is being held at gunpoint.
Yes, when seconds count, the police are only 5 minutes away.

I can’t believe it, I read all the way through and there wasn’t one reference to the purp having brought a knife to a gunfight.

One does wonder what the housebreaker was on to have mistaken a Springer Spaniel which had been there from the start was a police dog despite there being no police about. That had to have been some good stuff! It seems he didn’t take Towelie’s advice, paraphrasing; ‘you have to get stuff done first, then you can get high and reward your self’.

The editorial refers to the Salem that existed prior to Kitzhaber and his Progressive Cronnys took control and opened Oregon to Undocumented Immigrants, Drive-By-Voter (Motor-Voter) Free-everything for illegals, Socialist ‘Community Planning’ et al.
Salem is NOT a safe town

I did that once in a government van on the way back to Scott AFB – dang GPS let me down again. It turned into a “let’s just not stop at any stoplights and get the hell back on the freeway” kind of situation.

Every second of every day, all around the world, somewhere, a gun is preventing violence. That’s the half of the gun discussion that rarely gets publicity. Yes, guns prevent violence. Don’t bother alerting the media, they know that guns prevent violence, they just can’t admit it publicly. Endanger their liberal party invites to all the tony Hampton soirees? Whha-a-at?